“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.”
Rachel Cohn (1968) American writer
Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
“Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.”
Speech at Columbia University (14 January 1954)
1950s
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Context: I hate Communism because it is the negation of liberty and because humanity is for me unthinkable without liberty. I am not a Communist, because Communism concentrates and swallows up in itself for the benefit of the State all the forces of society, because it inevitably leads to the concentration of property in the hands of the State, whereas I want the abolition of the State, the final eradication of the principle of authority and the patronage proper to the State, which under the pretext of moralizing and civilizing men has hitherto only enslaved, persecuted, exploited and corrupted them. I want to see society and collective or social property organized from below upwards, by way of free association, not from above downwards, by means of any kind of authority whatsoever.
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